Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

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Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did ...

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. The key to unlocking ...

A new miniseries, narrated by Morgan Freeman, combines recent fossil research with cinematic reconstruction.

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.